ECHOES OF WAR: Remember Adam Helmer. He gets no famous poem like Paul Revere, no marble statue in a grand square. But on September 17, 1778, he ran 26 miles ahead of death itself and saved a whole valley of families, and that is as fine a thing as any soldier did in the entire war.

On this day in 1778, a settlement in the Mohawk Valley was burned to the ground, and yet almost nobody in it died, because one man ran 26 miles through the wilderness with warriors on his heels to warn his neighbors that death was coming. His name was Adam Helmer, and his run is… pic.twitter.com/zUeb9F81VU

— Echoes of War (@EchoesofWarYT) September 17, 2026